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Lau: Do you guys realize we never stop tasting our own tongues?

Bard: Fine, how a'bout I taste yers fer a change? >:/

Lau:

Ran Mao: Great you broke him.

#kuroshitsuji #incorrect quote #Bardoy #Bard #Lau #Ran Mao #Bardlau #I added the angry emote bc I assume the og second person didn't realize it was TAKEN that way #THUS ITS FUNNIER RGHDTJFYK #Source: Tumblr #I think

More About Bard’s Military Service...

In a previous post, I documented some information on Bard’s military service. Now that ch 172 has released, we can dig into this a bit more.

As of ch 172, we know Bard must have fought in the Apache Wars, and presumably he saw his comrades felled by poisonous snake bites (hence the snake comment from ch 100). He also mentions Arizona again...

This confirms he was a Cavalry member in the Indian wars, and it’s possible the man in his arms (in the ch 44 panel) when he meets Sebastian is “Terry,” who died from a snake bite, since it’s likely his acting routine is inspired by some of his real experiences...

But it’s still not clear in what battles/wars Bard may have fought. Two of the most famous would be one of the conflicts in the Geranimo’s War, which would fit with the Arizona and Apache reference, but ended in 1886. Since Geranimo is a famous figure, it’s possible that Yana may tweak history to make that work. However, the war didn’t end in a way that aligns with that image in ch 44 (small skermishes with the 4th Cavalry, ending in a surrender negotiation). {Photo: before the surrender, source.}

The other is “Custer’s Last Stand,” aka the Battle of Little Bighorn, which happened 10 years earlier in 1876, and involved the 7th Cavalry in Montana. That slaughter would certainly fit the image we get in ch 44, with Bard seemingly the only calvaryman remaining (~260 US soldiers died). The massacre changed the opinion of the “Indian problem” and led to changes in how they were dealt with, increasing the number of soldiers. Ofc, it isn’t Arizona and snakes were the least of the 7th’s problems. But perhaps Yana will tweak history here to make it fit.

Interestingly, Alfred Terry was a real Union general and commander of the Dakota Territory (1866-9, 1872-1886) and was Custer’s commanding officer (7th Cavalry). Ofc, he didn’t die in battle but of illness in 1888, after he’d retired. Still, maybe the name isn’t a coincidence?

So perhaps Yana is mixing things up (either out of ignorance, or intentionally). She already has Bard talking about “trenches” in ch 172, so either this is a translation error (often ravines and other natural features were used by both sides, but trenches weren’t dug in the Indian Wars), Bard is including references to previous military experiences (such as the Civil War), or Yana is changing history. Ofc, it’s also possible she doesn’t really know what she’s talking about, or she wants to tie Bard’s experiences somehow with the impending war in Europe that she’s moved the timeline for. (Trenches were a main feature of World War I.) There aren’t any trenches in sight in the ch 44 panel, so perhaps it is Bard adding as much random detail (from different past military experiences) to make his acting more dramatic.

I’m looking forward to learning more about Bard and is background.

It would be something if being in the sanitarium actually does cause him to experience some real PTSD flashbacks...

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Bardcliff headcanon #2 - Wooing.

Bardroy has never wooed a woman in his life. As far as he was concerned he was popular enough with the ladies as a lad that he didn’t need to learn how and after that he was sort of trying to stay alive and after that, well the only women he saw on any sort of frequent basis were the young Master’s aunts, Miss Elizabeth and Mey Rin (who was more of a sister than anything else).

Enter Grell Sutcliff, who he’s not too sure whether or not she is a woman until a later confirmation says yes, she most definitely is. Either way she’s pretty and sweet and he knows he likes her far more than he ought being only a cook and her a butler. She’s better than him by far.

His first attempt at anything vaguely resembling romancing the Burnett butler is very much a miss. He notices her crying one day and leaves a bunch of flowers in her room to cheer her up and while this does make her smile it also gets him nowhere; she doesn’t know who left them there after all.

Bard changes track. Mey Rin is a girl after all and she likes romance and girly things like that. He tries to gain wooing techniques from her romance novels (*cough*bodice-rippers*cough*) and this just leads to even more confusion. Do women actually want these things? None of them sound overly pleasant but the heroine always seems to swoon and simper and heave a lot and he assumes those are good things. He still feels like a right berk even thinking about doing any of that stuff though, though he does learn a lot of different ways to name certain parts of people’s anatomy...

Ultimately this fails too because while he can think of Grelle as his ‘midnight rose of passion’ saying it out loud is possibly the most embarrassing thing he’s ever done, so he won’t do that.

Eventually at the suggestion of Mey Rin he resorts back to flower giving, that’s simple enough, only this time he gives it in person (nearly smacking Grelle in the face with them as he does so). She loves it.